A section of the factory operators who on Thursday evening held a closed-door meeting with selected members of the Jinja district covid19 control task force noted that they were not ready for the stringent measures issued by the government.
The Project takes over from the Vegetable Oil Development Project, which has been managing palm oil growing on Kalangala’s Main Island Bugala and the outlying islands of Bunyama and Bubembe.
The managers were dropped following an internal audit that was conducted in March 2019, which implicated them for conniving to embezzle more than Shillings 5.4 billion from both Oil Palm Uganda Limited and Bidco Uganda Limited. The Financial controllers in Oil Palm Uganda Limited and Bidco Uganda Limited were put on notice to refund the money prompting them to flee into hiding.
The District Internal Security Officer Kaliisa Aggrey recently authored a report that indicated pinned both the Human Resources Officer Mukalu Abbey and the General Manager Sardin Damanik on sectarianism, human injustices and theft.
Some of the money was stolen through unapproved bonus payments, Bank Payments without supporting documentation, construction and civil works with conflict of interest, Payment made for no shipment of crude palm oil (CPO), Non approved trading stocks adjustments, spare parts stocks adjustments ad un cleared stocks in virtual locations.
